GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM SPACE
Year:2012 | Volume:1 | Issue:3|Papers Count:8

Nowadays, medical tourism has attracted the attention of tourists to use medical benefits and physical and psychological effects of special regions. Iran possess capabilities such as new synthetic drugs, stem cells, cancer and eye treatments, and also low cost medical in relation to European and American countries, low cost accommodation, religious commonalities, natural potentials such as climatic diversity and 4-seasons country, mud therapy, sand therapy, muddy puddle, mud volcano, and the existence of more than 1000 mineral springs and other natural attractions that have necessary potentials in medical tourism. But responsible institutions don’t pay enough attention to the development of this scope of tourism and consequently private and successful complexes have not formed in business level. This research aims to reply to undeveloped medical tourism and the related factors the method of the research is based on applied research and in gathering data is descriptive-analytic. And in addition to analyzing the status of medical tourism tries to consider the role and functions of those obstacles and strategies in creating medical tourism industry in Iran. Research results show that According to the available potentials and location strategic in proximity with Muslim countries this capability exists that in the field of medical tourism and treatment nature to become a medical tourism.

This research has been carried out to examine second homes effects on structural transformations in recreational settlements of Javaherdeh constellation and to explain implications resulted from changes. Javaherdeh recreational constellation is located in southwest of Ramsar city and has been studied as a statistical society. In this research, factor analysis was used to identify the most important factors of physical-spatial transformations in recreational settlements of Javaherdeh. The results of this analysis show that the main factor in structural transformations is second home expansion. Housing demand has increased due to the urban populations, and these demands result in second homes development in recreational settlements. Many residents in these settlements have changed agricultural land use to the commercial and residential land uses that these changes induced to eradicate agricultural system. On the other hand, housing features and architectural patterns of these settlements - resulting from urban pattern - have changed completely and finally, rural landscape is becoming an urban landscape or transited from one form to the other forms. Second home developments have positive and negative effects in these villages. To reduce negative effects of second home development, the research proposes a comprehensive study be done about carrying capacity of tourism regions in Javaherdeh recreational constellation. It also proposes acting supervisions at real estate developments in internal and external rural textures be done in order to protect architectural identity.

Nowadays, with the development of the science and industry of tourism, new angles are being studied. The magnitude of this development is such that almost all human needs are being considered. Architecture has been developed to solve many human needs but from the point of view of tourism, architecture has two main roles: requirement and attraction. Requirement lies in the area of tourism infrastructures while attraction is a part of the cultural attractions in which different categorizations have been taken into account for tourism attractions. This study aimed to investigate the fundamental relationship between the two major industries of architecture and tourism industry in the geographical context of Iran using analytical-descriptive methods. The results showed that architecture plays a major role in Iran's tourism attractions and that most tourists come to visit Iran’s architectural works.

Due to urbanization, improved transportation and communication, increased leisure time, etc. tourism in rural environments is expanding and it can provide employment and development of services and facilities in rural areas. Toularam, Zanglab and Dehtalaj in Chehelchay rural district in Minoodastht city is one of the prone areas for tourism and they have experienced many developments in the last two decades. This study aimed to assess the economic implications of Socio-economic tourism in these villages using questionnaires and interviews. The results showed that tourism has created some type of job variety esp. in village services as well as resulting in some changes in socio-economic activities in agriculture, rural income, and social awareness in villages. Having considered the potentials of villages in terms of their resources and pristine natural attractions, and their restrictions in economic sectors, particularly agriculture and livestock, it is necessary for decision makers and planners to investigate its future prospects based on rural tourism development.

The more tourism facilities and services, and urban attractions a place has, the more the urban space and structure will be prone to tourism. Isfahan city, by relying on the principles of traditional urbanism and urban planning, is modernized and its use of urbanism features matches Iran’s spatial conditions of cities. Also it is very rich in function. In the process of urban development, as a practical example and an authentic sample of Iranian urbanism, increased and developed urban tourism, and achieving a sustainable city by biking is an essential principle. The study was conducted using analytical methods of field research in district 3 of Isfahan city to investigate the relationship between the physical features of the use of bike and personal factors (age, sex, and education) in order to develop urban tourism. Results showed that there is a significant correlation between personal factors and physical features in using bike in the district to develop urban tourism.

In recent decades, policy makings look at urban spaces as a milestone in urban development. Vibrancy is considered as a major factor in urban design. Vibrant urban environments result in social interactions among individuals, an increase in social capital and the development of a creative and prosperous economy. However, the role of urban spaces that will enhance culture in our country is declining more and more and vibrancy and popularity is ignored. From among all urban spaces, the planning and design of city streets has the highest sensitivity and delicacy. So considering these factors and their impact on pedestrian movement in urban areas is inevitable. This study presents a conceptual framework for understanding the role of social values and public urban space in the quality of urban life in the street of Bu-Ali Sina in Hamedan. The results showed that factors such as the security and diversity of users have a great impact on the vitality and people-friendly streets while the results of the two factors of the availability of the vehicle and its implementation were not considered as significant.

Today, tourism is considered as an important source of income and a contributing factor in cultural exchanges between countries. In this regard, the first step in tourism development in any area is to determine the existing tourism attractions. In Iran, while villages have many natural resources, they face numerous economic problems, which makes it necessary to pay more attention to new complementary economic strategies like rural tourism. This study focused on strategic planning and suggested techniques associated with tourism activities in the village of Javaherdasht in Roodsar County.For this purpose, data were collected through a survey and field studies, and all strategies were developed using the SWOT matrix. The results showed that based on the internal factor evaluation matrix (2.47) and the external factor evaluation matrix (1.3), the tourism village of Javaherdasht should be the focus of conservative strategies of maintenance and internal support.

Research has been done on the effects of climate elements on tourism activities in various parts of the world, showing the effect of climate elements such as temperature, shower, relative humidity, wind direction and speed and etc. on tourists’ health and their travel destination. One of the investigating conditions of tourists’ ease is based on the elements of tourism climate index (TCI). This research was carried out to investigate the conditions of tourists’ ease in the province of Kohgiloyeh and Boier Ahmad using the climate element. Results of research show that some Eastern parts of the Province have better conditions for tourism activities in the 8 month of May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December and then the Western part of province. But in the months of January, February, March and April the western half has better conditions.